Borrowash

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Borrowash
Borrowash shown within Derbyshire
OS grid reference	SK4234
Shire county	Derbyshire
Region	East Midlands
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Postcode district	DE72
Dialling code	01332
Police	Derbyshire
Fire	Derbyshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
European Parliament	East Midlands
UK Parliament	Erewash
List of places: UK • England • Derbyshire

Coordinates: 52°54′N 1°22′W / 52.9, -1.37

Borrowash pronounced (listen) (help·info) is a village in the Erewash district of Derbyshire, England, situated immediately east of the Derby city boundary.

[edit] Amenities

At the centre of Borrowash village is Somerfield supermarket, which is surrounded by a number of shops including a butchers, a newsagents, a branch of the Derbyshire Building Society (where an armed robbery took place during 2007), two estate agents, a pet shop, four hairdressers/barbers, a post office, a library, a hardware shop, a tackle shop and florists.

There are also four public houses, an Indian restaurant, two Chinese takeaways, a cafe and a small kebab shop^[1].

The village has a football team (Borrowash Victoria A.F.C.), although their ground is in the neighbouring Derby suburb of Spondon.

The village's only school is Ashbrook Infant and Junior School.

[edit] Transportation

The Shacklecross Lock (Borrowash Bottom Lock) undergoing restoration in 2006.

There are buses to Derby, Ockbrook, Spondon, Ilkeston, Draycott, Risley and Nottingham.

To the south of the village there was once a railway station (Borrowash railway station opened by the Midland Railway) and the Derby Canal with two locks. The station was built in 1839 and closed to passengers in 1966. The canal is currently being restored, with the work on one of the locks nearing completion^[2]. The area which the canal used to run through is currently a public footpath linking Borrowash and Spondon.